Improvement in velocipede



0. M. TYLER. Velooipede Top.

No 94,927. Patented Sept. 14; 1869.-

N-PETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTONJL CHAREES M. TYLER, or INDIANA-Poms; INDIANA.

Letters Patent N'. 94,927, dated September 14, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN VELOCIPEDE.

, The Schedule referred to in tliese Letters Patent and making part offlie same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, OHAnnns M. TYLER, of Indianapolls, in the county of Marion, and State of Indiana,

have invented a new. and valuable Improvement in Velocipede-Covers; and I do herebv declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, makinga part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Myrelocipede is constructed in the ordinary n1anner, except that I 'add thereto standards, represented.

-by letters A and B upon the drawings, and attach to said standards, respectively, by screws, the cross-bars 1 marked 0, as shown.

I make a fi'ameof bent wires, the ends of each .of

which are hooked into the cross-bars c in the manner shown in figs. 3 and 4 of thedrawings. wires are marked (Z, respectively.

I construct a cloth cover to the above-described These bent frame of wires, and after spreading said frame out toits utmost extent, I sew the said cover to each of the wires that constitute the frame.

I nextarrange a cord over said cover in the manner represented on figs. 1 and 2, passing the same under loops attached to the outside of A the cloth cover, and making each end fast to the lower sides of the same."

The loops above refeired to, respectively, clasp around the bent wires of the frame, and are marked 3 on the drawings. Said cord is marked o. The letter yrepresents a double cord connected with the cord 1: in the manner shown, and so arranged that by being drawn downward, it serves to close the cloth cover. Wheuthe cover is thus closed, the end of cord y is made secure in the hook h in the manner shown on fig. 2.

The letter H represents a head-rest. It consists of a plate, curved in the manner shown, and secured upon the standards A in such manner that it serves as a rest or support forthe riders head whenever he finds it desirable to use it for that purpose.

The spindle x, on which the brace of the front wheel turns, is secured tightly into the lowerendof a smaller spindle, 2, which extends through the cylinder to which the braces B are attached, in such a manner that the movement of the front wheel cannot interfere with the steady and firm position of the braces or standards B. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A 1. The cover or awning herein described, arranged for operation by the cords c and y and the hook It, substantial] y as specified.

2.- The head-rest H and spindles x, and 2, when arranged with reference to. a velocipede, substantially as I specified.

In testimony that I claim at above, I have hereunto subscribed my name, in the'presence of two'wit- T messes.

CHARLES M. TYLER. -Witnesses:

H. N. Connors, NICHOLAS EMRICH. 

